A Negotiated Marriage

A Negotiated Marriage

Noelle Adams is one of my favorite authors who never fails to produce a wonderful book. She has written an engaging novel based on a marriage of convenience filled with steaming hot chemistry. I really enjoyed this book because firstly she depicts a heroine with a back bone who is independent and successful as well as a rich businessman who is not an over bearing alpha male who controls his wife life. At the same time she makes the characters come to life by bringing their vulnerability to light. Unlike other novels about marriages of convenience, she starts the novel from when they have already been married for three years and is able to depict the falling in love after marriage. Noelle has once again done a fabulous job and deserves applause for a well written novel.

Rating: 4/5

Plot

The story begins three years into a marriage of convenience between Molly who is a successful corporate investigator and Luke Lyons who is a successful and rich businessman. After three years of living together Luke has decided to renegotiate their marriage contract by adding sex into the mix. Initially they agree on sex once a week, but a couple weeks later they both realize that they both crave their off the charts sex more than once a week.  Molly starts to develop feelings for Luke but is now afraid to confront them as she has been burnt in the past.

The Substitute: The Wedding Pact #1

The Substitute: The Wedding Pact #1

This is the first book in The Wedding Pact Series by the USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank. Denise has done a wonderful job with the character depiction of Megan who is unable to face her mother, her mother Nicole (a.k.a Knickers) who is a combination of a stepford wife and Hitler and lastly Megan's two friends Blair and Libby who are both poles apart in nature. Megan's grandmother brings wonderful laughs to the story with her eccentric and fun loving behavior. Denise deserves recognition for her well written situations and good story.

Rating : 3.5/5

Plot

Megan Vandemeer  who recently broke up with her cheating boyfriend is on her way home to her wedding, six weeks later, to break the news to her parents of her ended engagement. On the plane intoxicated by the dangerous combination of a couple of mimosas and two Dramamine, she meets a strong and handsome stranger to whom she tells her sad story.

Josh McMillan, is one to always plan his every move, however he takes a rash decision and jumps on a plane to Kansas City to make one final attempt to save his company. He least expected to be sitting next to this gorgeous women who is intoxicated, but still manages to charm him. In his attempt to help her off the plane, a big misunderstanding is created where her parents believe him to be her fiance'. Much to his surprise, this misunderstanding might be the answer to save his business.

Josh then steps in as Megan's substitute groom and through all the festivities, their relationship begins to turn from a fake to real one.